Sony Machine Vision Line Up 2014

XCG Line up

XCG Series

VGA ～ 5MHigh Quality

High resolution High SpeedHigh Sensitivity

XCG Standard Overview

Design

• Automatic gain control Gain & reponse speed

adjustment

• 3 year warranty

Profile• VGA to 5 MP

• B&W and Color

Main features• 5 image sensors

• 8, 10, 12 bit & Raw color output

• Normal, Binning, Partial scan read out

• Several trigger modes Edge detection, pulse width

detection, sequential, bulk

XCG Exview HAD II Overview

Design

•Full auto-Exposure (H280) Gain & Shutter adjustment

• Trigger Mode: H/W or S/W trigger Edge/Pulse width detection Standard/Bulk/Sequential trigger

mode

• Meta-data: Image transfer with camera

configuration / TimeStamp

• 3 year warranty

Profile

• B&W and Color

• Full HD@60fps

Main features• 2/3-type CCD, pixel: 4.54*4.54µm,

1920*1440 output pixels 64 fps in Full HD in sequence mode 32 fps in Full HD standard mode**up to 59.6fps depending on NIC capabilities

• Bit depth: 8/10/12 bits/pixels• Memory Shot:

Image buffer for raw data

• Gain/Shutter control• Partial Scan / Binning 2x2

Resolutions & Frame Rates

VGA SXGA UXGA Full HD 5Mp

90 fps

Resolution

27 fps

16 fps

15 fps

50 fps

B&W

B&W

B&W

B&W

B&W

B&W

CR

CR

XCG-V60E

XCG-SX99E

XCG-SX97E

XCG-U100E

XCG-H280E/CR

XCG-U100CR

XCG-5005E/CR

CR

Frame Rate

Features Hightlight

Image Sensor

High Speed Acquisition (Partial San)

Binning

Gain Control

Sensitivity control (XCG-H280)

White Balance (Color models)

Trigger modes

Auto Exposure

Chunk Data (XCG-H280)

LUT

Memory Channel

SDRAM data Flow for packet resending

Image Sensor (Standard)

I. Image SensorThe XCG-U100CR and the XCG-5005CR incorporates highly renowned

and widely adopted Sony’s “Super HAD CCD” sensor and achieves high

frame rate at high resolution(XCG-U100CR : 27fps @ 2Mega pixels, XCG-

5005CR : 15fps @5Mega pixels) without decreasing the picture quality.

By activating the sensor in high frame rate, the influence of smear is

reduced and it is helpful for outdoor application.

XCG-H280E/CR (ExView HAD II)•2/3-type CCD, pixel: 4.54*4.54µm, 1920*1440 output pixels

64 fps in Full HD in sequence mode32 fps in Full HD, standard free run mode*

*up to 59.6fps depending on NIC capabilities

EXview HAD II technology

Technology to improve sensitivity

Super HAD CCD Ⅱ

EXview HAD CCD

EXview HAD CCD Ⅱ

=+

ExView HAD II

Image Sensor : EXview HAD CCD II• ICX674 : Sensor used for the XCG-H280E• ICX285 : Sensor used for the XCG-SX97E and XCG-SX99E

High Speed Acquisition (Partial Scan)

A customer can minimize image processing time by selecting needed frame rate

and angle of view without decreasing the resolution. Partial scan function is useful in

reducing data amount of effective image and increasing frame rate in

all angle of view by scanning the only area that a customer needs. Note:

1. Frame rate is increased only by vertical partial scan.

2. Since shutter speed setting has priority over the partial scan, shutter speed is not changed even if

the partial scanning function is set. And also when the shutter speed is too long, the frame rate might

not go up even if the smaller area is selected.

High Speed Acquisition (Partial Scan)

Partial scan function for the GigE Vision camera the XCG and the is to partly clip specified position of angle and fixes number of pixels and lines by setting four parameters (Offset X/Y and Width/Height).

Four parameters

Example XCG-U100CR XCG-5005/ECR

Width (pixels)

64 to 1,600,8-pixel step

64 to 2,448,8-pixel step

Height (lines)

120 to 1,200,4-line step

120 to 2,048,4-line step

XCG-H280

wo/Binning w/Binning

Width (pixels²) 640 to 1,920,8-pixel step

320 to 960,4-pixel step

Height (lines) 480 to 1,440,2-line step

240 to 720,1-line step

Offset X 0 to 1,280,2-pixel step

0 to 640,1-pixel step

Offset Y 0 to 720,2-pixel step

0 to 480,1-pixel step

Parameter: “Width”

Parameter: “Height”

Parameter: “Offset X”

Parameter: “Offset Y”

Binning Combines 2/4 pixels together with the following benefits

• Sensitivity increase

• Readout noise reduction

• Data reduction with same field of view as full resolution image

• Frame rate increase with vertical binning

Ex : XCG-H280

Gain Control

Analog gainThe XCG cameras provides both manual and automatic gain control.

In case of AGC(Auto Gain Control), user can set user-specified detection frame and average sensitivity.

• Detection frame : is defined by offset X/Y and Width/Height(Relative to 100% width and height of the output frame).

• Average sensitivity : is selectable from 0 to 16383.

Gain Control

Digital Gain

The XCG camera provides a digital gain function

and the value is variable from 1x to 2x(0.015625x step). This digital gain is useful to increase the sensitivity without increasing noise which is not

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Gain Control

Pixel GainThe XCG-U100CR and the XCG-5005CR provides a

pixel gain function which is possible to change each R/G/B pixel gain independently and manually. The setting range is from 1x to 16x in 0.0009765625x step.

Note: The setting range of the XCG-U100CR(only) is different between the 1st lot

40units and from the 2nd lot.

XCG-U100CR XCG-U100CR

1st lotS/N : 1000001~1000040

2nd lot ~S/N : 1000041 ~

Setting range of Pixel Gain

0.9765625x ~ 15.625x,

0.0009765625 step(1000 ~ 16000)

1x ~ 16,

0.0009765625 step(1024 ~ 16383)

Sensitivity ControlHW – XCG-H280

Wavelength ： 380nm ～ 760nm “Visible area”

Wavelength ：～380nmUV: Ultra Violet

⇒ Surface check

Wavelength ：～380nmUV: Ultra Violet

⇒ Surface check

Wavelength ：760nm ～IR ： Infrared

⇒ Internal check

Wavelength ：760nm ～IR ： Infrared

⇒ Internal check

Sensitivity ControlHW XCG-H280

• CCD substrate bias voltage adjustment By adjusting the substrate bias, the saturation signal

charge can be increased or decreased Increasing the saturation signal charge improves the

sensitivity Decreasing the saturation signal charge reduced the

smearing Easy hardware modification required

Sensitivity improvement Smear reduction Smear

White Balance (CR)

The XCG color models provide One-push White Balance which is possible to adjust white balance by controlling R gain and B gain corresponding to the G gain for a user-specified detection frame

ONCE upon executing the command.

The detection frame is defined by offset X/Y and Width/Height(Relative to 100% width and height of the output frame) as well as analog gain setting.

Synchronization(External Trigger Input)

i. Hardware/Software TriggerThe cameras can select hardware trigger input from 12pin connector and software trigger that generates drive signal inside the camera by command via Ethernet. Hardware trigger has a benefit in case user needs more accurate acquisition and Software trigger is useful to make the system simple (Software trigger starts after receiving command from host computer).

ii. Trigger PolarityIt is possible to input both high-active and low-active polarity trigger to the camera according to a customer’s system.

– Trigger inhibitThe cameras can be set not to recognize trigger input by internal camera setting(which means trigger inhibition can be set). This enables arbitrary the camera to recognize only a needed trigger signal, and acquire image when customers use system in which common trigger signal line is connected to multiple units of cameras. Also the cameras can be protected from noise which added to trigger signal line by using Trigger Inhibit function.

Synchronization(External Trigger Input)

iv. Trigger OverlapThis trigger overlap function enables the the

cameras to input trigger during previous picture is read out from the sensor on trigger mode in order to accept trigger at the fastest possible timing.

Note: When trigger is overlapped, exposure start to the trigger is fine adjusted and jitter occurs. Please refer to the “Trigger Latency”, Overlap: Yes.

Trigger input(Edge detection mode)

Exposure

Readout

Overlap

Standard Trigger Modes

• Edge detection

• Pulse width

Configurable trigger delay

Configurable trigger delay

Special Trigger Modes

• Sequential Trigger• Bulk Trigger

Exposure image

Sequential Trigger mode

Ch 3Ch 2

1 　　 2 　　 3

Ch 1

1 　　 2 　　 3

Standard triggering

Ch 1 Ch 1 Ch 1Bulk Trigger mode

Ch 3Ch 2

1

Ch 1

Auto Exposure

• Combines Auto Gain and Auto Shutter control Auto Gain only / Auto Shutter only / Auto Exposure (Gain +

Shutter)

• Operations Dark: increase shutter time until Max Shutter then increase

Gain Bright: decrease Gain until Min Gain then decrease shutter

time

• Parameters Same target luminance value (14bit) Same detection area Max / Min Gain adjustable Max / Min Shutter speed adjustable Adjustable response speed Illustration of response speed adjustment

CHUNK DATA XCG-H280

Transmit acquisition parameters, timestamps and user settings at the same time as the acquired images

Parameters list• TimeStamp, BlockID• TriggerCounter• Temperature• GPIO Status• ROI: Width / Height / Offset• PixelFormat• ExposureTime• Gain• UserMemory

Lookup Table (LUT)

Input signal (luminance signal)

Look Up Table Output signal (Digital data)

　★ Mode

① Linear（ default ）

② Negative ③ Binarization ④ Linear interpolation

⑤ User setting(IN:12bit 、 Out:12bit)

4 presets setting 　4 presets setting 　

LUT ： Transform the input data into more desirable output format　

LUT ： Transform the input data into more desirable output format　

Memory Channels

μCμCADCADC

IOIO

FPGA

＊ Gain, Shutter, White Balance, etc.＊ 1( default setting) +16 settings 　（ CameraLink, GigE Vision)

0 :Default setting （ default at exfactory ）

1 :Gain:0,Shutter ： 1/100s, ・・2 :Gain:9, Shutter ： 1/30s, ・・3 :Gain:0, Shutter ： 1/10000, ・4 :5 :・・15:

Save the camera setting

SDRAM Data Flow for Packet Resending The XCG Series have SDRAM of128Mbit (16MByte) to play a role of FIFO.

Resend request from host PC when packet lost can be answered while data exists in this SDRAM. The right table shows amount of data that each camera can store in SDRAM (as a reference value).

Example 8bit 10bit 12bitXCG-U100CR 8.3 frames 6.7 frames 5.6 frames

XCG-5005CR 3.2 frames 2.5 frames 2.1 frames

Amount of storing data(Reference value)

Specifications

Specifications

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